Milwaukee Sports Headlines

In his book “Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game is Really Played,”Jason Kendall provides an insider’s view of baseball on the major-league level.

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Kevin Harvick pulled away on a restart with 47 laps to go and ended Chase Elliott’s two-race winning streak in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series with a dominating victory early Saturday at Richmond International Raceway.

WESTERN LAKES: John Geder, 77.

Ben Martin, who shot course-record 62 on Thursday, shook off his first bogey and double bogey of the tournament to finish with a 67 on Friday at the Zurich Classic.

The Golden Eagles hope to get a lot out of Matt Carlino, who will graduate from Brigham Young University but has one year of eligibility remaining.

UW-Platteville coach Chris Walter announced his resignation after 17 years with the Pioneers. Under his tutelage, the Pioneers garnered 31 national qualifiers and nine all-Americans.

Despite seeking feedback from the NBA, the 7-foot center didn’t waver from his original plan to return to UW for his senior season.

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SATURDAY

Steve Fabiilli has been named women’s hockey coach at Concordia University.

Here are some thoughts found on Twitter this week. Go to www.jsonline.com/sportstweets for links to accounts of state athletes.

Darth Vader bartending. Queen Elizabeth hang gliding. Antonin Scalia yodeling. Or how about this one: Fox televising golf.

FRIDAY

Bo Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, Mike McCarthy and Eddie Lacy were among the big-name athletes and coaches to walk the blue carpet of the Wisconsin Sports Awards on Thursday night at the Kern Center.

BROADLANDS: Eagle — Jack Cowles, No.16, 478 yards, 6-iron.

Carl Budnik, 63, Milwaukee, Riviera, Frank Erato Handicap, fourth 300 game. 719 series (300-215-204).

“NBA on TNT” executive producer Tim Kiely says cited a segment the show once did on Martin Luther King Day made Kiely worry that the show may had gone too far.

With American Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, about to make his return to the swimming pool, Reuters looks back at some of the most successful and least successful sporting comebacks.